Bottle-stopper.



No. 772,803. PATENTED OCT. 18, 1904. T. HOGAN & P. H. GRADY.

BOTTLE STOPPER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.12, 1903.

NO MODEL.

' q/vihmpoca Patented October 18, 1904.

UNITED. STATES PATENT O FICE.

THOMAS. HOGAN AND PATRICK GRADY, OF ABILENE, TEXAS.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,803, dated. October18, 1904.

Application filed August 12, 1903. Serial No. 169,250- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, THOMAS HOGAN and PATRICK H. GRADY, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Abilene, in the county of Taylor and State ofTexas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers,ofwhich the following is a specification.

' Our invention relatesto new and useful improvements inbottle-stoppers; and its object is to provide a cap which is adapted tobe antomatically locked'in position upon the neck of the bottle and at apoint above a cork or other suitable sealing device arranged within theneck.

A further object is to provide locking means within the cap, whichis ofa peculiar. form, whereby the cap will be securely fastened to thebottle-neck.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in thenovel construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings,showing the preferred form of our invention, and in which- Figure 1 is asection through a bottle-neck, showing a cap locked in position thereon;and Fig. 2 is a detail view of the locking-spring,

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is the neck of abottle, the upper end of which is beveled, as shown at 2, and adjacentthe inner end of the neck is a groove 3. The distance between thisgroove and the inner end of the bottle-neck is slightly greater than thethickness of a cork or other sealing device 4, which is arranged withinthe neck. A rectangular groove 6 is formed within the outer face of theneck, adjacent the outer end thereof, and is adapted to register with asimilar groove 7, formed within the inner face of acap 8, closed at oneend. Within this groove 7 is arranged a spring 9, which is substantiallyoval in form and the ends of which are enlarged, as shown at 10, andform inwardlyextending projections, which are directly opposite thetapered portion 11, formed within the spring. When in normal positionwithin the groove 7 the depressed portion 11 -and the enlarged ends 10of the spring project from the inner face ofthe cap 8. It is thereforeobvious that when this cap is placed upon the neck 1 and presseddownward thereon the tapered end of the neck will force the projectingportions of the spring backward into the groove 7, where they will behelduntil said groove registers with the groove 6. Said portions of thespring will then immediately move into engagement with the groove 6antomatically, and the cap will thus be securely fastened upon the neckand cannot be detached therefrom. When it is desired to remove thecontents of the bottle, it is necessary to strike the cap upon some hardobject,

so as to break the neck along the groove 3. The seal 4: will prevent thebroken glass from falling in the bottle. It will be seen that the deviceis extremely simple in construction,

and it is absolutely impossible to remove the contents of the bottleunless the neck is first broken.

In the foregoing description we have shown the preferred form of ourinvention; but we do not limit ourselves thereto, as we are aware thatmodifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and we therefore reserve theright to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of ourinvention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is In adevice of the character described, the combination with a bottlehaving'a neck provided with a rectangular annular groove adjacent oneend; of a cap adapted to receive and close the neck and to extend. overthe groove, said cap having a rectangular annular groove in its innerface adapted to register with the groove in the neck, and a securingdevice seated within the groove in the cap and comprisingoppositely-arranged springbows having inwardly-extending enlarged endsspaced apart, and an inwardly-extending curved portion connecting thebow-shaped portions, said bow-shaped portions being In testimony whereof\voafiix our signatures seated at all times Within the groove in the inpresence of two Witnesses.

cap and adapted to partly inclose the bottle- THOMAS HOGAN. neck, andthe intermediate portion and the PATRICK H. (iltAlN. enlarged ends beingadapted to automatically \Vitnesses:

project into the groove in the bottle-neck and C. LAMBETH, lock the capupon said neck. J. \V. DISHMAN.

